diff --git a/bitmapcontainer.go b/bitmapcontainer.go
index 354af17e..91a50a73 100644
--- a/bitmapcontainer.go
+++ b/bitmapcontainer.go
@@ -175,16 +175,35 @@ func (bcmi *bitmapContainerManyIterator) nextMany(hs uint32, buf []uint32) int {
 	n := 0
 	base := bcmi.base
 	bitset := bcmi.bitset
+	bitmap := bcmi.ptr.bitmap
 
 	for n < len(buf) {
 		if bitset == 0 {
+			// The current word is exhausted, so whole words follow. Decode them
+			// in bulk while the buffer still has room for the 64 values a single
+			// word could produce; anything left over falls through to the loop
+			// below. bitset stays zero, which keeps the iterator's invariant
+			// that word `base` has been fully consumed.
+			for useVectorFill {
+				words := (len(buf) - n) / 64
+				if remaining := len(bitmap) - base - 1; words > remaining {
+					words = remaining
+				}
+				if words <= 0 {
+					break
+				}
+				start := base + 1
+				n = fillLeastSignificant16bitsVector(bitmap[start:start+words], buf, n, hs|uint32(start)*64)
+				base += words
+			}
+
 			base++
-			if base >= len(bcmi.ptr.bitmap) {
+			if base >= len(bitmap) {
 				bcmi.base = base
 				bcmi.bitset = bitset
 				return n
 			}
-			bitset = bcmi.ptr.bitmap[base]
+			bitset = bitmap[base]
 			continue
 		}
 		t := bitset & -bitset
diff --git a/manyiterator_bitmap_test.go b/manyiterator_bitmap_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..da3ae938
--- /dev/null
+++ b/manyiterator_bitmap_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+package roaring
+
+import (
+	"math/bits"
+	"math/rand"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// bitmapContainerManyIterator decodes whole words in bulk when the buffer has
+// room and falls back to the word-at-a-time loop otherwise. Buffer sizes that
+// are not multiples of 64 make the two paths interleave.
+func TestBitmapContainerNextManyBufferSizes(t *testing.T) {
+	r := rand.New(rand.NewSource(11))
+	for _, cardinality := range []int{1, 63, 64, 65, 4096, 30000, 65535, 65536} {
+		bc := newBitmapContainer()
+		for bc.cardinality < cardinality {
+			bc.iadd(uint16(r.Intn(65536)))
+		}
+
+		want := make([]uint32, 0, cardinality)
+		for k, w := range bc.bitmap {
+			for w != 0 {
+				want = append(want, 0x50000|uint32(k*64+bits.TrailingZeros64(w)))
+				w &= w - 1
+			}
+		}
+
+		for _, bufSize := range []int{1, 2, 63, 64, 65, 100, 127, 128, 129, 1000, 4096, 65536} {
+			it := bc.getManyIterator()
+			buf := make([]uint32, bufSize)
+			got := make([]uint32, 0, cardinality)
+			for {
+				n := it.nextMany(0x50000, buf)
+				if n == 0 {
+					break
+				}
+				if n > bufSize {
+					t.Fatalf("card=%d buf=%d: returned %d, more than the buffer holds", cardinality, bufSize, n)
+				}
+				got = append(got, buf[:n]...)
+			}
+			if len(got) != len(want) {
+				t.Fatalf("card=%d buf=%d: got %d values, want %d", cardinality, bufSize, len(got), len(want))
+			}
+			for i := range want {
+				if got[i] != want[i] {
+					t.Fatalf("card=%d buf=%d: at %d got %d want %d", cardinality, bufSize, i, got[i], want[i])
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func benchBitmapNextMany(b *testing.B, cardinality, bufSize int) {
+	r := rand.New(rand.NewSource(12))
+	bc := newBitmapContainer()
+	for bc.cardinality < cardinality {
+		bc.iadd(uint16(r.Intn(65536)))
+	}
+	buf := make([]uint32, bufSize)
+	var sink int
+	for b.Loop() {
+		it := bc.getManyIterator()
+		for n := it.nextMany(0x50000, buf); n != 0; n = it.nextMany(0x50000, buf) {
+			sink += n
+		}
+	}
+	_ = sink
+	b.ReportMetric(float64(b.Elapsed().Nanoseconds())/float64(b.N*cardinality), "ns/value")
+}
+
+func BenchmarkBitmapContainerNextMany(b *testing.B) {
+	b.Run("card=4096/buf=4096", func(b *testing.B) { benchBitmapNextMany(b, 4096, 4096) })
+	b.Run("card=16384/buf=4096", func(b *testing.B) { benchBitmapNextMany(b, 16384, 4096) })
+	b.Run("card=32768/buf=4096", func(b *testing.B) { benchBitmapNextMany(b, 32768, 4096) })
+	b.Run("card=65536/buf=4096", func(b *testing.B) { benchBitmapNextMany(b, 65536, 4096) })
+	b.Run("card=32768/buf=512", func(b *testing.B) { benchBitmapNextMany(b, 32768, 512) })
+	b.Run("card=32768/buf=64", func(b *testing.B) { benchBitmapNextMany(b, 32768, 64) })
+}